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refinancing

verb

present participle of refinance
as in financing

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for refinancing
  1. financing
  2. underwriting
  3. funding
  4. aiding
  5. advocating
  6. sponsoring
  7. endorsing
  8. backing
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  • The approval follows a group of Democratic lawmakers in March sounding the alarm about foreign investors financing the merger.
    — Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 17 Sep. 2026
  • The increase in the rate since then, of nearly 1 percentage point, translates roughly into an additional $255 monthly cost for a borrower financing a $400,000 home loan at the current average rate.
    — Alex Veiga, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of financing
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  • Insurers have been underwriting this risk with real money for years, which tells you the market accepted the premise some time ago.
    — Tenzin Seldon, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2026
  • In 1975, banks stopped underwriting the city’s daunting debt, which caused a fiscal crisis.
    — Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026
Definition of underwriting
Verb
  • Harris spoke about Parton’s impact beyond music, which included opening Dollywood, funding research for the COVID-19 vaccine, her Imagination Library, and creating a relief fund for the wildfires that devastated Tennessee a decade before.
    — Marina Watts, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Sep. 2026
  • But the plan without funding details has divided her party and could be a problem when parliament reconvenes in October.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of funding
Verb
  • Early in life this response is beneficial, aiding development, wound healing and cancer prevention.
    — Venki Ramakrishnan, Scientific American, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Chicago police have alternately been accused of disregarding federal agents’ 911 calls and aiding immigration enforcement through traffic stops and crowd control.
    — Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of aiding
Verb
  • Speaking about past experiences to inform how the two use their voice when advocating for change and a new direction, Tennant shared that people are always looking for clarity, especially when change occurs.
    — Kanika Talwar, Footwear News, 17 Sep. 2026
  • CreativeFuture, the nonprofit advocating for creative copyright protections, was doing their own work, as were representatives from the TV Academy.
    — Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of advocating
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  • Mercedes-Benz has been sponsoring the Masters for almost 20 years; the 140-year-old automaker came on as an inaugural sponsor of ANWA seven years ago.
    — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 8 Apr. 2026
Definition of sponsoring
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  • In a poll provided to Axios, the president’s pollster urged Republican candidates not to say clippable pro-data center things on camera, while endorsing consumer-friendly regulations on data center construction.
    — David Weigel, semafor.com, 16 Sep. 2026
  • New London officials are eagerly endorsing Spinnaker Real Estate Partners’ proposal as a way to draw some of the thousands of new employees being hired by nearby Electric Boat while recapturing a stretch of attractive waterfront at the marina.
    — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of endorsing
Verb
  • Rather than backing Sanon, Badio supported another candidate, Haitian Superior Court Justice Windelle Coq Thélot, who later died while in hiding.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 20 Sep. 2026
  • But the environmental groups and others backing the legislation had sought to keep up the pressure on Newsom.
    — Andrew Graham, Sacbee.com, 19 Sep. 2026
Definition of backing
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“Refinancing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/refinancing. Accessed 23 Sep. 2026.

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